Social interaction effect of rotational grazing and its policy implications for sustainable use of grassland: Evidence from pastoral areas in Inner Mongolia and Gansu, China

2021 ◽  
pp. 105734
Author(s):  
Yuxing Shi ◽  
Yu Cai ◽  
Minjuan Zhao
Keyword(s):  
Social Interaction ◽  
Interaction Effect ◽  
Inner Mongolia ◽  
Sustainable Use ◽  
Policy Implications ◽  
Rotational Grazing

Groundwater-dependent ecosystems and the dangers of groundwater overdraft: a review and an Australian perspective

2010 ◽  
Vol 16 (3) ◽  
pp. 187 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jon C. Nevill ◽  
Peter J. Hancock ◽  
Brad R. Murray ◽  
Winston F. Ponder ◽  
William F. Humphreys ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Groundwater Resources ◽  
Sustainable Use ◽  
Ecological Impacts ◽  
Policy Implications ◽  
Natural Ecosystems ◽  
Groundwater Exploitation ◽  
Groundwater Overdraft ◽  
Coastal Marine ◽  
Groundwater Dependent Ecosystems ◽  
Use Context

In many parts of the world, access to groundwater is needed for domestic, agricultural and industrial uses, and global groundwater exploitation continues to increase. The significance of groundwater in maintaining the health of rivers, streams, wetlands and associated vegetation is often underestimated or ignored, resulting in a lack of scrutiny of groundwater policy and management. It is essential that management of groundwater resources considers the needs of natural ecosystems, including subterranean. We review the limited Australian literature on the ecological impacts of groundwater overdraft and place Australian information within an international context, focusing on lentic, lotic, stygobitic and hyporheic communities as well as riparian and phreatophytic vegetation, and some coastal marine ecosystems. Groundwater overdraft, defined as abstracting groundwater at a rate which prejudices ecosystem or anthropocentric values, can substantially impact natural communities which depend, exclusively or seasonally, on groundwater. Overdraft damage is often underestimated, is sometimes irreversible, and may occur over time scales at variance to those used by water management agencies in modelling, planning and regulation. Given the dangers of groundwater overdraft, we discuss policy implications in the light of the precautionary principle, and make recommendations aimed at promoting the conservation of groundwater-dependent ecosystems within a sustainable use context.

scholarly journals Is offensive commenting contagious online? Examining public vs. interpersonal swearing in response to Donald Trump's YouTube campaign videos

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
K. Hazel Kwon ◽  
Anatoliy Gruzd
Keyword(s):  
Social Interaction ◽  
Interaction Effect ◽  
Online Community ◽  
Emotional Contagion ◽  
Spillover Effects ◽  
User Interactions ◽  
Mixed Effect ◽  
Negative Valence ◽  
The Difference ◽  
Positive And Negative Valence

• Purpose: The current study explores the spillover effects of offensive commenting in online community from the lens of emotional and behavioral contagion. Specifically, it examines the contagion of swearing –a linguistic mannerism that conveys high arousal emotion –based upon two mechanisms of contagion: mimicry and social interaction effect. • Design/methodology/approach: The study performs a series of mixed-effect logistic regressions to investigate the contagious potential of offensive comments collected from YouTube in response to Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign videos posted between January and April 2016. • Findings: The study examines non-random incidences of two types of swearing online: public and interpersonal. Findings suggest that a first-level (a.k.a. parent) comment’s public swearing tends to trigger chains of interpersonal swearing in the second-level (a.k.a. child) comments. Meanwhile, among the child-comments, a sequentially preceding comment’s swearing is contagious to the following comment only across the same swearing type. Based on the findings, the study concludes that offensive comments are contagious and have impact on shaping the community-wide linguistic norms of online user interactions. • Originality/value: The study discusses the ways in which an individual’s display of offensiveness may influence and shape discursive cultures on the Internet. This study delves into the mechanisms of text-based contagion by differentiating between mimicry effect and social interaction effect. While online emotional contagion research to this date has focused on the difference between positive and negative valence, Internet research that specifically look at the contagious potential of offensive expressions remain sparse. Keywords: Verbal Aggression, Offensive Comments, Emotional Contagion, Swearing and Profanity, Linguistic Mimicry, YouTube

scholarly journals The Valuation of Grassland Ecosystem Services in Inner Mongolia of China and Its Spatial Differences

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (24) ◽  
pp. 7117 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jing Ning ◽  
Jianjun Jin ◽  
Foyuan Kuang ◽  
Xinyu Wan ◽  
Chenyang Zhang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Ecosystem Services ◽  
Willingness To Pay ◽  
Inner Mongolia ◽  
Contingent Valuation Method ◽  
Economic Valuation ◽  
Policy Implications ◽  
Grassland Ecosystem ◽  
Valuation Method ◽  
Grassland Ecosystems ◽  
Spatial Differences

Economic valuation of grassland ecosystem services is important for protecting and restoring grassland ecosystems. This study aims to investigate Chinese netizens’ willingness-to-pay (WTP) for protecting grassland ecosystem services in Inner Mongolia by using the contingent valuation method. The results indicate that 61.55% of respondents expressed a positive WTP. The mean WTP was estimated to be CNY 170.76 (USD 25.11) per person per year. We found that there is a significant spatial difference in respondent’s WTP. Factors such as respondent age, education, household income and concern about grassland protection significantly affected their WTP. Younger, more educated and wealthier respondents have a higher probability of willingness to pay, and those who are concerned about grassland protection present a higher WTP. The regression results also show that distance from the grassland negatively affects the probability and values of people’s WTP. Findings of this research provide useful policy implications for decision-makers involved in grassland protection and management.

Are benefits of others important? The interaction effect of moral identity and construal level on green consumption

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 145-162
Author(s):  
Bo Wu ◽  
Dongjin Li ◽  
Chubing Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Individual Difference ◽  
Interaction Effect ◽  
Moral Identity ◽  
Policy Implications ◽  
Mediation Effect ◽  
Construal Level ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Green Consumption ◽  
Prior Literature ◽  
The Relationship

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the interaction effect of moral identity and construal level on consumer green consumption and the mediating role of pro-environmental self-accountability. Design/methodology/approach The authors examined the hypotheses in two experiment studies. In study 1, the authors measured participants’ chronic individual difference of moral identity and primed construal level. In study 2, the authors primed moral identity and measured chronic individual difference of construal level. The authors also measured pro-environmental self-accountability in these two studies. Findings The results reveal that construal level moderates the relationship between moral identity and consumer green consumption, specifically, when consumers are induced a high construal level, moral identity has no effect on consumer green consumption, while when consumers are induced a low construal level, moral identity has a positive effect on consumer green consumption; the interaction of moral identity and construal level on green consumption is mediated by pro-environmental self-accountability. Research limitations/implications This research enriches the literature on how to improve consumer green consumption, and thus has some managerial and public policy implications. But the authors only chose students as participants and the dependent measures are also limited. Future research can choose other type of sample and other dependent measures to test the generalization of the conclusion. Originality/value Prior literature of green consumption lacks research on mediation mechanism. Due to prior literature gaps, the authors integrate social-cognitive perspective moral identity theory, especially the in-group circle expansion of moral identity, and construal level theory to investigate the moderating effect of construal level on the relationship between moral identity and green consumption and the mediation effect of pro-environmental self-accountability.

Small-scale Co-management for the Sustainable Use of Xilingol Biosphere Reserve, Inner Mongolia

AMBIO ◽  
2006 ◽  
Vol 35 (1) ◽  
pp. 25-29 ◽  
Author(s):  
Neeta Bijoor ◽  
WenJun Li ◽  
Qian Zhang ◽  
Ganlin Huang
Keyword(s):  
Inner Mongolia ◽  
Sustainable Use ◽  
Biosphere Reserve ◽  
Small Scale

scholarly journals Is offensive commenting contagious online? Examining public vs. interpersonal swearing in response to Donald Trump's YouTube campaign videos

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
K. Hazel Kwon ◽  
Anatoliy Gruzd
Keyword(s):  
Social Interaction ◽  
Interaction Effect ◽  
Online Community ◽  
Emotional Contagion ◽  
Spillover Effects ◽  
User Interactions ◽  
Mixed Effect ◽  
Negative Valence ◽  
The Difference ◽  
Positive And Negative Valence

• Purpose: The current study explores the spillover effects of offensive commenting in online community from the lens of emotional and behavioral contagion. Specifically, it examines the contagion of swearing –a linguistic mannerism that conveys high arousal emotion –based upon two mechanisms of contagion: mimicry and social interaction effect. • Design/methodology/approach: The study performs a series of mixed-effect logistic regressions to investigate the contagious potential of offensive comments collected from YouTube in response to Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign videos posted between January and April 2016. • Findings: The study examines non-random incidences of two types of swearing online: public and interpersonal. Findings suggest that a first-level (a.k.a. parent) comment’s public swearing tends to trigger chains of interpersonal swearing in the second-level (a.k.a. child) comments. Meanwhile, among the child-comments, a sequentially preceding comment’s swearing is contagious to the following comment only across the same swearing type. Based on the findings, the study concludes that offensive comments are contagious and have impact on shaping the community-wide linguistic norms of online user interactions. • Originality/value: The study discusses the ways in which an individual’s display of offensiveness may influence and shape discursive cultures on the Internet. This study delves into the mechanisms of text-based contagion by differentiating between mimicry effect and social interaction effect. While online emotional contagion research to this date has focused on the difference between positive and negative valence, Internet research that specifically look at the contagious potential of offensive expressions remain sparse. Keywords: Verbal Aggression, Offensive Comments, Emotional Contagion, Swearing and Profanity, Linguistic Mimicry, YouTube

The vegetation map of Inner Mongolia, 1 : 1 500 000, China

1996 ◽  
pp. 59-63 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yong Shipeng
Keyword(s):  
Inner Mongolia ◽  
Coniferous Forest ◽  
Sustainable Use ◽  
Remote Sensing Data ◽  
Field Studies ◽  
Ecological Groups ◽  
Forest Zone ◽  
Vegetation Map ◽  
Broad Leaf ◽  
Sound Foundation

Vegetation of the region can be divided according to five basic principles: 1) genesis (natural or artificial vegetation); 2) belonging to a global vegetation ecoregion (Eurasia coniferous ecoregion, Eastern Asia summer green broad-leaf ecoregion, etc.); 3) belonging to a climatic zone (Cool temperate light coniferous forest zone, Mezo-temperate summer green forest zone, etc.); 4) belonging to a geomorphic landscape (mountainous vegetation, plateau vegetation, etc.); 5) division into formations or subformations with the help of edificators, dominants and ecological groups. In Inner Mongolia 99 formations have been distinguished. Using the above approaches the vegetation map legend has been constructed. The map has been completed on the base of remote sensing data and the field studies. Its legend has been worked out following the principles of landscape ecology and fully exploiting the satellite images informations. The map quite clearly reflects the dynamic aspects of vegetation, it is supplemented by special legends to show the degree of vegetation destruction under human activities. In the very conclusion the different aspects of application of the map are given as the basis for resource inventoring, phytomass assessment, the compiling of rangeland map, estimating of carrying capacity, etc. The map provides a sound foundation for planning of sustainable use and protection of vegetation cover in Inner Mongolia.

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